New iPhone Leak Reveals Apple's Radical Design

New iPhones in 2019 will go for it.
Apple is redesigning the range with very big and very small models, but the most exciting may also be the cheapest and we now have more information why...

Acclaimed leaker Mac Otakara (which has been successfully exposing Apple’s plans since it was first to break the news the iPhone 7 would remove the headphone jack), reveals Apple will bring its biggest iPhone X feature to the ‘iPhone SE2’. Yes, Face ID and the bezel-less design it enables are coming to a budget iPhone.

And this is just the start.

New iPhone bezel-less display alongside a 4-inch iPhone SEMobile Fun

Perhaps the most interesting news is Mac Otakara states Apple hasn’t decided the final design of the iPhone SE2 and there are “several models...in existence”. Including one with a display as large as 6-inches.

Citing a source within “a certain glass manufacturer”, Mac Otakara says Apple is testing three types of prototype glass for the new iPhone, but all share the same characteristics: “no Touch ID holes and their upper portion are cut into the shape of TrueDepth cameras [aka the notch].” This ties in with information leaked by notoriously accurate case maker Olixar earlier this week.

Mac Otakara points out the downside to this ambitious iPhone SE successor is Apple won’t be ready to release it until the latter half of Q3. Which suggests it will launch alongside the second generation iPhone X and all-new iPhone X Plus.

And I have one problem with this. My concern is leaks are blending the iPhone SE2 and a budget version of the iPhone X (a so-called ‘iPhone X SE’) into the same device.

Is this the iPhone SE2 or iPhone X SE?Olixar

My sources tell me these are in fact two separate iPhones, with Apple planning to release the iPhone SE2 as early as next month in a 4-inch body almost identical to the original iPhone SE. While the iPhone X SE (unlikely to be the final name) will be a 6-inch budget-friendly iPhone X that launches alongside the aforementioned gen 2 iPhone X and new iPhone X Plus.

Either way, however, what is clear is Apple’s stepping up its game. Long gone are the iPhone 6-derived designs and the iPhone X was just a test for the bigger plans of 2018.

I am an experienced freelance technology journalist. I have written for Wired, The Next Web, TrustedReviews, The Guardian and the BBC in addition to Forbes. I began in b2b print journalism covering tech companies at the height of the dot com boom and switched to covering con...